Unforgettable week at Hudson Falls High School!
ABC World News with Charles Gibson named us their “Persons of the Week”!
I’ve posted Diane Sawyer’s piece on our school below. We are becoming aware of more survivors and liberators. Thank you to the staff and students of Hudson Falls Central School District, the Hudson Falls Teachers Association, to [...]
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Holocaust Survivors, Liberators Reunited – ABC News : Person of the Week: Teacher takes students on a journey of humanity.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Streaming Video of Holocaust Liberators-Survivors conference at Hudson Falls High School, Sept. 2009.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Conference Program 3
EACH SEGMENT IS APPROX. 75 MINUTES LONG.
(You may need to cut and paste the url hyperlink directly into a browser.)
MMS://STREAMER.hfcsd.org/9-23-MORNING
Program Notes: Soldiers/Survivors Reunion
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
MORNING PROGRAM 9:30am-10:59am
9:30 am- Block II at Hudson Falls High School Auditorium
THEME: THE LIBERATORS AND SURVIVORS OF A “TRAIN NEAR
MAGDEBURG”
9:45am- Program begins-
Welcome by CJ Hebert, High School Principal
[...]
American Soldiers/Holocaust Survivors Reunion-Sept. 22-26, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Americans Came to Liberate, not Conquer:
American Soldiers/ Holocaust Survivors Reunion
Hudson Falls High School, Hudson Falls, New York
September 22-26, 2009
2010 will mark the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the recent D-Day remembrance ceremonies in Normandy, France, marked the beginning of the commemoration of the liberation of Europe. The signature phrase [...]
In Valor, There is Hope.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think it is a given that the tragic loss of security guard Stephen Johns on Wednesday will serve to strengthen our commitments, as United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellows, to persevere all the more in our missions.
Here is a post from Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal, which sums up how we feel about the Museum staff as [...]
D-Day, Sixty-Five Years On.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, Buster Simmons, concentration camps, D-Day, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, Normandy, Omaha Beach, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on June 6, 2009 | 28 Comments »
I came into school today, on a Saturday, to start packing up my room for a move to another room.
But it is the 6th of June.
Instead I am getting nothing done, mesmerized by the scenes, live from Normandy, of the 65th anniversary celebration.
The President is there and so are 250 American veterans of the battle for Normandy, [...]
The Story with Dick Gordon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, concentration camps, Dick Gordon, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Story with Dick Gordon.
Steve Barry and Carrol Walsh did an interview with Dick Gordon of American Public Media for National Public Radio. It was broadcast, appropriately, on Memorial Day. Very well done and very powerful.
You can read the previous post for more information and links.
You can go to the link here to listen in. [...]
The Holocaust Survivor and the US Army Ranger…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, concentration camps, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(originally posted November, 2007)…are one in the same person! Had a great lesson 4th block today.
My high school seniors and I were treated to a wonderful interview with Mr. Steve Barry, 83, of Florida, who graphically described his liberation from that train nearly 63 years ago. He said “The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published an article [...]
REMEMBER.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scene #1: The morning of December 16, 1944. A lonely outpost on the Belgian frontier.
In subzero temperatures, the last German counteroffensive of World War II had begun. Nineteen thousand American lives would be lost in the Battle of the Bulge. “Hell came in like a freight train. I heard an explosion and went back to [...]
The Last Battle-Major Julius Rock.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, concentration camps, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I received this email while I was at the last liberator-survivor reunion.
March 27th, 2009.
“Dear Mr. Rozell,
My father was a medical officer with the 30th Infantry. It is astounding to me that I saw the article just now in the NY Times on line, and this week will be my father’s 20th Yahrzeit (anniversary of his [...]
Yom Hashoah.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30th Infantry Division, 743rd Tank Battalion, Bergen Belsen, Bergen Belsen Memorial, concentration camps, education, Farsleben, Hillersleben, history, history education, Holocaust, Holocaust survivor-liberator reunion, Holocaust Survivors, Liberators, narrative history, oral history, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, World War II, World War II Living History Project on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was the guest speaker at a local temple this evening. It was a beautiful ceremony of remembrance, with music and song…. I may have been the only non-Jew there and I was the honored guest.
Honored guest!
I kept biting my lip and hoping I would not lose it, or cry, when it was my turn [...]
